Turnaround for the FDP, polarisation continues

In the 2015 federal elections, the FDP consolidated its position as the leading economic party. The SVP made gains thanks to its solid ground-level support and the widespread concerns about migration. On the other hand, the GLP and BDP could rely only on a small number of core voters, and in 2015 the electorate didn't identify them with specific issues or solutions. These are the findings of a study by the Selects election research project, which is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and conducted by FORS in Lausanne. The SVP (Swiss People's Party) and liberal FDP (Free Democratic Party) were the big winners at the 2015 federal elections; the new centre parties, GLP (Green Liberal Party) and BDP (Conservative Democratic Party), were both lost. For a sixth time, the voting behaviour behind the result was analysed as part of the Selects election research project. The results show: in 2015, the SVP was once again more successful in mobilising its potential voters than all the other parties.